Letter: McDonald's is not a monster

12:59 AM,
Sep. 12, 2013

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The Desert Sun recently published a cartoon depicting McDonald's as an evil corporation exploiting fast-food workers with cheap wages while making billions of dollars of profit.

Demonizing McDonald's for making "billions in profit each year" just isn't fair. The fact of the matter is that the company made $5.5 billion last year for their shareholders spread over 1 billion shares. That's about $5.50 per share, or just over a 5 percent return based on the current stock price.

McDonalds isn't some Wizard of Oz ghoulish character preying upon the working class. ...